{"id":459046,"date":"2026-02-09T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459046\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:39:09","slug":"herefordshire-farmer-to-walk-142-miles-for-mental-health-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459046\/","title":{"rendered":"Herefordshire farmer to walk 142 miles for mental health support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A farmer and mental health activist has started his 142-mile (229km) walk from Herefordshire to London to raise awareness for the struggles faced by the farming community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Stables, co-founder of We Are Farming Minds, set off from Ross on Wye Market on Monday morning and will walk about 30 miles (48km) a day before reaching The Farmers Club in London on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The walk has been done in partnership with the Farm Safety Foundation &#8211; Yellow Wellies and its Mind Your Head campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important to me, not just my own personal struggles with mental health but I&#8217;m also aware British farming is in crisis,&#8221; he said before setting off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farmer and mental health activist has started his 142-mile (229km) walk from Herefordshire to London to raise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-459046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}